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A05051	The description of a voyage made by certaine ships of Holland into the East Indies VVith their aduentures and successe: together with the description of the countries, townes, and inhabitantes of the same: who set forth on the second of Aprill 1595. and returned on the 14. of August. 1597. Translated out of Dutch into English by W.P.; Verhael vande reyse by de Hollandtsche schepen gedaen naer Oost Indien. English.	Phillip, William.; Houtman, Cornelis de, d. 1599, attributed name.; Langenes, Barent.	1598 (1598)	STC 15193; ESTC S109348	41,570	78

for now there is not any trade of marchandise The fourteenth of Nouember wee sent two of our men into the towne hauing some of theirs in pawne who tolde vs that many of the inhabitantes were gone out of the towne with all their goodes being in great feare of our peeces and there wee had great store of victuailes and much more then wee required brought abord our ships The 18. wee set saile from Iacatra and being about two miles from the towne our shippe called Amsterdam fell vppon a cliffe but it got off againe without any hurt and therewith wee presently made towardes the straight The 2. of December we passed by 3. townes which we might easily perceiue we likewise passed by Tubam and ankered vnder Sidaya The 3. of December there came men out of the towne desired vs to stay saying that there we might haue Cloues Nutmegs as many as we woulde bringing certaine banketting stuffe as a present from their King vnto Sche●lengers ship because it lay nearest to the land and they came most abord it The 4. of December they came again into Schellengers ship bringing certaine presentes with them and among the rest a certayne birde that coulde swallowe fyer which is a very strange fowle and was brought aliue to Amsterdam which after was giuen to the states of Hollande lying in the Hage and some good fruites willing vs to sende a man on shore to see their spices whereof they said they had great store wherevpon we sent a man out of the Amsterdam and with him an interpreter one of the Portingalles slaues they leauing three or foure of their men aborde our shippes for pawnes till his returne when our man came to lande hee was well vsed and there they shewed him fortie or fiftie bals of Cloues which done they brought him before the King that promised him great fauor and told him that the next day he wold himselfe come aborde our ships and deale with our Captaines and with that he let our man depart The 5. of December we expected the Kinges comming aborde putting out all our flagges and streamers and about noone there came 8. or 9. indifferent great shippes full of men from off the shore wherein wee thought the King to bee but when they were almost at vs they diuided themselues three of them rowing to Shellengers ship and when they borded him they thinking the King had been there Reymer van Hel as Factor and the Maister came forth to receyue him but the Iauers entering all at once Reymer van Hel said What will all these people doe aborde the shippe for there was at the least two hundred men who all at one time drewe out their poinyardes and stabbed our men that neuer suspected them so that presently they had slaine twelue of the shippe and two sore wounded that boldly withstoode them the rest of our men being vnder hatches presently tooke their pikes and thrust so fast out at the grates How the Indians betrayed thē that the Iauers woulde haue forced the middle part of the ship wherein was two entries but our men standing at them with their swordes in hande draue them out not ceasing still to thrust vp with their pikes meane time they kindled fier lighted their matches shot off their stone peeces that lay aboue the hatches wherwith they began presently to flie most of them leaping ouer bord and swam to their two boates that lay harde by our shippes whereof one with a great peece was presently striken in peeces The rest of our ships hearing vs shoote in that manner entered into their boats and made towardes them rowing harde to the three Indian fustes wherein were at the least 100. men and shotte among them with their peeces wherewith they leapt into the water euery man swimming to shore and we with two boates after them hewing and killing them as our deadly enemies who vnder pretence of friendshippe sought to murther vs and wee handled them in such sort that of two hundred men there got not aboue thirty of them to lande the rest of their fustes lay farre off and beheld the fight Three of their fustes thought to rowe to the Pinace to take her which they might easily haue done as hauing not aboue 7. or 8. men in her being busie to set vppe a newe maste but when they perceyued their men to bee so handeled in the Amsterdam and that they leapt ouer borde they turned backe againe and in great haste rowed to land so that at that time they got not much by the bargaine and no small griefe to vs for there wee lost 12. men that were all stabbed with poinyards their names were Iohn Iacobson Schellenger maister of the ship Reymer van hel Factor Gielis Gieleson Gentleman Barent The names of their men that were stabed Bonteboter Arent Cornedrager Cornelis van Alcmuer Simon Ianson Wiltschut Ioos the Carpenter Adrian de Metselar one of the Portingalles slaues and two boyes whereof one was but twelue yeares olde whereby wee perceyued them to be a kinde of cruell people for they had giuen the little boy and all the rest of our men at the least 12. stabbes a peece after they were dead The same day about euening we hoysed ankers and set saile hauing manned the Amsterdam with men out of our other shippes and so helde our course Eastward The 6. of December we came to a great Island called Madura where we ankered and in the euening two of their men came aborde our shippes with message from their Gouernour saying that we were welcome desiring vs to stay there for he would trafficke with vs and sell vs some Pepper as they saide but wee belieued them not The 7. of December there came another boat abord bringing certaine fruites saying that the next day their Gouernour would come to see our shippes The 8. there came a great fuste and three smal boats from off the land all full of men saying their Gouernor was among them we willed them not to goe to the Amsterdam but to the Mauritius but they woulde not but made to the Amsterdam thinking because there had beene so many murthered in her there was not many men aborde her at that time and when they were within a pykes length of her although they were directed to the other shippes they remembring their late mischance shotte off three or foure stone Peeces full laden wherewith they slew and hurt many of the Indians wherevpon they presently leapt ouer bord wee with our boates followed after and slew diuers of them taking ten or twelue thinking by them to know what their intent was to doe but they coulde not certifie vs and therefore we let them go againe onely keeping two boyes who long after stole out of the shippe and swamme to lande They tolde vs that the Gouernour being a Bishoppe or chiefe instructor of the countrey was within the boate and slaine among the rest hee had therein likewise a little boy

the towne are well kept from such as are circumcised whereof the rich men haue many and from other men or their friendes for their owne sonnes may not come into the house where the women are They lie all naked and chaw Betelle and haue a slauish woman that continually scratcheth their bodies that is such as are married women but such as are concubines are as waiting Gentlewomen to the married women when they goe out to giue them more maiestie and those that haue the greatest number are of most estimation The Concubines haue but fewe children for the married women poyson their children and these concubines are bought and solde by their apparell a man can hardly discerne the riche from the poore for they goe all with a Cotton cloth about their bodies vp to their breastes and bounde about their middles with an other cloth bare footed and their heads vncouered their hayre bound right vpon the top of their heads in a heape but when they are in their pride they weare crownes vpon their heads whereof some of them are of pure golde ringes of golde some of siluer about their armes euery one according to their abilitie They are very curious about their bodyes for they washe themselues at the least fiue or sixe times euery day they neuer ease themselues nor haue the company of their husbandes but they presently leape into the water and wash their bodies and therefore the water that runneth through Bantam is very vnholesome for euery one washeth themselues in it as well pockie as other people whereby wee lost some of our men that drunke of the water The women are verie idle for they do nothing all the day but lie downe the poore slaues must doe all the drudgerie and the men sit all day vpon a mat chaw Betele hauing ten or twentie women about them and when they make water presently one of the women washeth their member and so they sit playing all the day with their women Many of them haue slaues that play vppon instrumentes much like our Shakebois they haue likewise great basons whereon they strike therewith know how to make good musicke whereat the women daunce not leaping much but winding and drawing their bodies armes and shoulders which they vse all night long so that in the night time they make a great noyse with basons and other instruments and the man he sitteth and looketh vpon them euerie one of the women striuing to doe her best that she may get her husbands fauour and her secreat pleasure The Gentlemen Citizens and marchantes haue their Gardens and fieldes without the towne and slaues for the purpose to labour in them and bring their maisters all kindes of fruit Rice and Hennes in the towne How Pepper groweth in that countrey as also the Pepper that groweth there which runneth vp by an other tree as Hoppes with vs and groweth in long bunches like Grapes so that there is at the least 200. graines in one bunch it is first greene and after it becommeth blacke and is there in great aboundance so that it is the right Pepper countrey for when we came thither they said vnto vs Aqui ai tanta Pimienta como terra that is here is as much Pepper as earth and so we found it and yet we departed from thence by our own follies without our lading of Pepper Wee staide for new Pepper meane time the Portingalles sent their letters into euery place seeking to hinder our trade At the first we might haue sufficient for there we founde enough both to buy for money or to barter We likewise had money and wares sufficient we might easily haue had sixe or eight hundred tunnes as we were aduertised by some of the countrey that we should presently buy for that the Portingalles sought all the means they could to hinder vs as after it appeared and therefore he that thinketh to come soone enough commeth oftentimes too late and we vsed not our time so well as it fell out A letter sent by our men in the town that were kept prisoners The 29. of August we had a letter sent vs by night from our men that were in the towne that lay in a maner as prisoners to will vs to let our pledge go a shore otherwise they feared they shoulde hardly escape with their liues and great danger might fall vpon them this pledge came aborde with the 9. slaues The 30. of August we sent the pledge and the rest of our Iauers to land with promise that he would do the best he might to get our men leaue to come aborde about euening of the same day wee had newes from our men by foure of our saylers that as then they were better vsed saying they thought they should come aborde when two shippes were gone that ment to saile for Malacca being laden with Nutmegs and other things The first of of September and the 2. 3. and 4. wee sent many letters to the Gouernour and hee to vs and likewise to our men that were in the towne being nine in number all our best marchants and captains hauing with them about 6. or 7000. Guildernes in marchandise and they againe to vs. They went nearer to the towne The 5. of September when wee perceyued that delayes were daungerous wee went close to the towne with all our 4. shippes and so neere that we had but two fadome muddie grounde and presently with two of our boates for our securitie wee set vppon three Iauan shippes whereof two were laden with fish and Cocus wherein wee founde a man of China being of some account The third ship was laden with 20. tunnes of Cloues 6. tunnes of Pepper and some Benioni and Piementa da Rauo wherein we founde fiue Malabardes slaues to the Portingalles whom wee likewise tooke they were very willing to goe with vs thereby to bee eased of the slauery wherevnto the Portingals put them and perceyuing that the Portingalles went often to and from another shippe that lay not farre from vs we took our Pinace and made towardes it and being harde by it the Portingals left it set it on fire This ship had the richest wares in it as the Portingalles slaues tolde vs for it was laden with fiftie tunnes of Cloues which were burnt in it The sixt and seuenth of September we hearde no newes so that wee went close to the Towne agayne shooting with our great Peeces into it slaying diuers of the people as after we were informed They likewise shot with their Peeces agaynst vs which the Portingalles did for that the Iauars haue little or no skill at all therein and are very fearefull of them and although they had many peeces in the towne yet they did vs no other hurt then onely shot one of Molenares halfe masts in peeces A skirmish betweene the Pinace 24. boats The seuenth of September wee had a skirmish which was in this manner we perceyuing a Iauan ship

one of his sonnes who wee likewise tooke and sent to lande The Bishoppe was of Meca and much esteemed of among them a great Clearke and Gouernour ouer all the rest of the Countrey There was a Iewell found about him which as yet is kept About euening we hoysed ankers set sayle the 11. of December we came to two small Islands where wee ankered there wee founde none but poore people and fishermen that brought vs fish Hens other fruit to sell How farre they were from Moluccas The 13. wee set sayle and the 14. wee had a West winde which they call the passage winde that would haue serued vs well to saile to Moluccas from whence wee were not distant aboue two hundred miles and as then it was a good yeare for Cloues which happeneth euery three yeares It was told vs that we might there haue a Cabbin laden full of Cloues wherevpon wee determined to sayle thither but because wee had already indured a long and troublesome voyage and but ill manned wee woulde not longing to bee at home This contrary wind holding vppon the foure and twentie of December wee came to an Islande where we had beene before The 25. of December Iohn Molenaer maister of the Mauritius dyed sodainely for an hower before hee was well and in good health The 28. 29. 30. and 31. of December wee were busied to take all the wares sayles and other thinges out of the Amsterdam her victuailes and furnitures seruing for our voyage homewarde lying vnder that Island we had victuailes brought vs euery day as much as wee needed both fish Hens venison and fruit and at reasonable price but there we could get no water The Amsterdam set on fire The 11. of Ianuary when we had vnladen the Amsterdam we set her on fier letting her burne taking her men into our shippes The 12. of Ianuarie we set sayle again some desiring to sayle Eastward others Westward but in fine wee set Westwarde to sayle once againe to Bantam wherewith the Mauritius sayled Southeastwarde to gette about the Island of Iaua and we followed her The 14. of Ianuary we once againe perceyued the East point of the Island of Madura and held our course Southward on that side of Madura there lyeth many small Islandes through which we sayled The Pinace on ground The 16. in the morning our Pinace fell on grounde vpon the coast of Iaua not far from Pannorocan where she shotte off three peeces at the which warning wee made thither with our boates and by the helpe of God got her off againe There we saw a high hil that burnt vnder and aboue the fire hauing a great smoake most strange to behold The 18. of Ianuary we entered into the straight that runneth betweene Iaua and Baly and by reason of the hard contrary streame that ran therin we were forced to anker vpon the coast of Iaua where wee found good anker ground The 19. wee set sayle and when wee came neere to the coast of Baly we entered into a rough streame and our shippes draue backeward as swiftly as an arrow out of a bow and there we found no anker ground nor any anker could haue holden vs but Molenaer got the coast of Iaua and ankered which in the ende wee likewise did and ankered at the least three miles from him and so much we had driuen backe in the space of halfe an houre The 20. of Ianuarie wee went and lay by our other ships The 21. of Ianuarie there came two barkes to the Mauritius wherein there was one that coulde speake good Portingall who tolde vs that the towne of Ballaboam was besieged by a strange King that had marryed the King of Ballaboams daughter and after he had laine with her he caused her to bee slaine and then came to besiege her father This towne of Ballaboam lyeth on the East end of the Island of Iaua and is the same towne where M. Candish was when hee passed that way and the old King wherof he writeth was as then yet liuing being at the least 160. years of age There we saw great numbers of Battes that flew ouer our shippes and were as bigge as Crowes which in that Countrey they vse to eat as they say About noone we came before the towne of Ballaboam so neare vnto it that we might easily see it and there we lay behind a high point of lande thinking to take in water The 22. of Ianuarie we tooke our Pinace and sayled about the shore as neere the land as possible we might to seeke for fresh water but we found none for the Riuer that ran through the towne was paled vp by them that lay before it so that no man might passe either out or in but onely on the lande side and that with great daunger The same day there came 2. or 3. men abord our shippe that stole out of the towne by night and came from the King to desire our help with our great shot which wee coulde not doe because that thereabouts it was very shallow and we might not go neere it with our shippes they tolde vs they had great want of victuailes within the towne whereby many of them were already deade for hunger and much desired our aide but it was not in vs to doe Those that besieged the towne were Mores but they in the towne were heathens and as yet had not receyued Mahomets lawe and that as wee heard after was the cause of their warre There wee sawe many Storkes flying and sitting in the fielde with vs we cannot imagaine where the Storkes remaine in winter time but here wee sawe them in the winter time The 24. of Ianuarie we sayled from thence perceyuing nothing for vs to get and tooke our course right ouer to the Island of Bally The 25. we came to Bally where one of their barks borded vs telling vs that there we should find a Riuer of fresh water and of all thinges els sufficient to serue our necessities wherevpon wee ankered The 26. of Ianuarie our Pinace sent her boat to land to see the Riuer and there one of our men was sent on shore but when he was on land he found nothing but an armie of ten thousand men that ment to relieue the towne of Ballaboam and the Riuer was nothing worth to lade water wherevpon our men came on borde againe Their Generall thought to haue gotten some great pray out of our shippes The 27. of Ianuarie we set sayle to finde a conuenient place to refresh vs with water and other prouision for wee were informed by a man of Bengala that of his owne will sayled with vs and that had beene in Bally that there wee should finde water and other thinges to serue our necessities so that by night wee ankered vnder a high pointe of lande on the South west ende of Bally The 28. of Ianuary one of their boates borded vs with sixe or seuen men saying that their King was